Jan De Nul has launched William Thomson, the second of two identical subsea cable‑laying vessels (CLVs) currently under construction.

Both vessels have a cargo capacity of 28,000 tons and a length of 215 meters. This makes them the largest of their kind, Jan De Nul said.

Jan De Nul’s two new CLVs have been specially built to install subsea cables, both in shallow and ultra-deep waters down to 4,000 meters. Thanks to their large loading capacity, they can take longer cables on board in a single piece and bridge longer distances with as few subsea cable connections as possible.

Compared to other cable-laying vessels on the market, they therefore also need

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